Download or read book Physics of Blackness written by Michelle M. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be black? If blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of blackness change over time and space? Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define blackness as a 'what', it in fact always operates as a 'when' and a 'where'.